Welcome to CopyLeftLicense.com! Here you will find an archive of all the copyleft and open source licenses that have been published in the past. From Beerware Licensing, where you need to buy a beer for the open source programmer if you see them in a bar, to the fine-tuned and legally-curated Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) License, we have it all. By knowing where we've come from, we might be able to learn where to go!

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Licenses : Open Source and CopyLeft Licenses

A collection of open source and copyleft licenses.

Please read the license carefully---it is somewhat like the GNU General Public License, but there are several conditions in it that differ from what you may be used to. If you have any questions, please email the LDP coordinator, Guylhem Aznar. Note: All Linux Documentation Project manuals are copyrighted by their respective authors. THEY ARE NOT IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. The Linux Documentation Project manuals (guides) may be reproduced and distributed in whole or in part, subject to the following conditions: The copyright notice above and this permission notice must be preserved complete on all complete or partial copies. Any translation or derivative work of Linux Installation and Gettin...

Open Patent License Written by Victor Yodaiken Revised by Wind River Systems, Inc. The Open RTLinux Patent License ("License" or "Agreement") governs the royalty-free use of the process defined by U.S. Patent No. 5,995,745. Anyone can license the use of the Patented Process (as defined below) by agreeing to be bound by the terms of this License. Such person is considered to be the Licensee ("Licensee"). The Patented Process may be used, without any payment of a royalty, with two (2) types of software. The first type is software that operates under the terms of a GPL (as defined below). The second type is software operating under an Open RTLinux Execution Environment (as defined below). As long as the Licensee complies with ...

Independent JPEG Group License LEGAL ISSUES In plain English: 1. We don't promise that this software works. (But if you find any bugs, please let us know!) 2. You can use this software for whatever you want. You don't have to pay us. 3. You may not pretend that you wrote this software. If you use it in a program, you must acknowledge somewhere in your documentation that you've used the IJG code. In legalese: The authors make NO WARRANTY or representation, either express or implied, with respect to this software, its quality, accuracy, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose. This software is provided "AS IS", and you, its user, assume the entire risk as to its quality and accuracy. This software is co...

Attribution Assurance License Copyright (c) 2002 by AUTHOR PROFESSIONAL IDENTIFICATION * URL "PROMOTIONAL SLOGAN FOR AUTHOR'S PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE" All Rights Reserved ATTRIBUTION ASSURANCE LICENSE (adapted from the original BSD license) Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the conditions below are met. These conditions require a modest attribution to (the "Author"), who hopes that its promotional value may help justify the thousands of dollars in otherwise billable time invested in writing this and other freely available, open-source software. 1. Redistributions of source code, in whole or part and with or without modification (the "Code"), must pro...

Academic Free License Version 1.0 This Academic Free License applies to any software and associated documentation (the "Software") whose owner (the "Licensor") has placed the statement "Licensed under the Academic Free License Version 1.0" immediately after the copyright notice that applies to the Software. Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of the Software (1) to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, perform, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, and (2) under patent claims owned or controlled by the Licensor that are embodied in the Software as furnished by the Licensor, to make, use, sell and off...

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